Siou

Everywhere the natives seemed friendly, and Father Marquette was usually able to communicate with them through his knowledge of the Illinois Algonkin dialect, which the Siou understood.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

He had also summoned a great council of Amerindian tribes -- the Siou from the Upper Mississippi, the Assiniboins from the Lake of the Woods

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

The Siou and the Ojibwé (and other tribes also) believed that after death the soul lay for a time in a trance, and then found itself floating towards a River which must be crossed.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Down this river they sped, meeting people of the great Siou confederation and Kri (Cree) Indians, these last an Algonkin nation roaming in the summertime as far north as

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Thus the Siou tribes of Assiniboia believed that the Supreme Being (whom they called Eth-tom-é) first created mankind and all living things, and then, through some oversight or mistake, caused a great flood to cover the earth's surface.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

The "lodges" or long houses made of poles, fir branches, moss, &c., wherein, among the Iroquois, Algonkin, and Siou peoples, several families made a common habitation, are described here and there in the course of the narrative.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Accordingly, La Vérendrye arranged with the Mandans to frighten them away by pretending that the Siou Indians were on the warpath.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Even in this, however, they were not let off lightly, for the Siou men invented as a tenet of their religion the saying that

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Dakota-Siou group in the valley of the Mississippi.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Dakota stock, from which the great Siou confederation [5] was also derived.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892